I am building a brigade of Portuguese to go with my friends' British armies. From what I can tell, the COs of these brigades were, for the most part, British (e.g., Pack, Stubbs, Power, etc.). Were they still officers in the British Army, or were they officially transferred to Portuguese service?

Basically I want to know if they wore British or Portuguese uniforms, so I know what kind of figure I should buy for my brigade commander.

I understood that they were on secondment to the Portuguese Army. So still officers in the British Army. I'm not sure how seniority was calculated. I expect that they would want their Portuguese service to count though!

I have painted up 4 Portuguese infantry brigades and. 2 Portuguese cavalry brigades. I painted the brigade commanders who were Brigadiers in Portuguese uniforms, but those who were Colonels in their British uniform (having researched which British regiments they held commissions in).

It's my understanding that some commanders were British and some Portuguese. Where there was a Portuguese commander, his immediate subordinate was British. If the commander was British, his immediate subordinate was Portuguese.

If his Portuguese rank was higher than his British rank then I suspect that British Officers would wear Portuguese uniform. That certainly applied to Dickson, as a Colonel of Portuguese Artillery he would outrank British Officers who were actually senior to him in British service.

As 'secondees' (ie salaries paid by the Portuguese Army- even if the cash originally came as a UK subsidy) rather than 'attachments' (ie salaries paid by the British Army), these British officers would definitely wear the Portuguese uniform by default. Doubtless they could get away with a plain blue frock coat in the field, but they would not be wearing British uniform while on Portuguese Army duty.